linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] i2c: mediatek: modify threshold passed to i2c_get_dma_safe_msg

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Message-ID: <20190309094236.GA1340@kunai>
Date:   Sat, 9 Mar 2019 10:42:36 +0100
From:   Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>
To:     Hsin-Yi Wang <hsinyi@...omium.org>
Cc:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
        Jun Gao <jun.gao@...iatek.com>,
        Ryder Lee <ryder.lee@...iatek.com>, linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i2c: mediatek: modify threshold passed to
 i2c_get_dma_safe_msg_buf()

On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 05:02:02PM +0800, Hsin-Yi Wang wrote:
> i2c_get_dma_safe_msg_buf() allocates space based on msg->len. If threshold is
> 0 and msg->len is also 0, function makes zero-length allocation, which returns
> a special ZERO_SIZE_PTR instead of a NULL pointer, and this will cause later
> code to fail. Modify the threshold to > 0 so the function returns NULL pointer.
> 
> Fixes: fc66b39fe36a ("i2c: mediatek: Use DMA safe buffers for i2c transactions")
> Signed-off-by: Hsin-Yi Wang <hsinyi@...omium.org>

Reworded commit message to "HW doesn't support 0 length" and applied to
for-current, thanks!


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